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Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, both within QuickSight and embedded in your software as a service (SaaS) applications. QuickSight Enterprise edition started supporting nested conditions within row-level security […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is a fully managed service that […]

September 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully open-source search and analytics engine that securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like recommendation engines, ecommerce sites, and catalog search. To be successful in your business, you need your systems to be […]

Data transformation plays a pivotal role in providing the necessary data insights for businesses in any organization, small and large. To gain these insights, customers often perform ETL (extract, transform, and load) jobs from their source systems and output an enriched dataset. Many organizations today are using AWS Glue to build ETL pipelines that bring data […]

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for large datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides fast query performance over large tables, atomic commits, concurrent writes, and SQL-compatible table evolution. When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational […]

Jul 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with Glue 4.0 support in AWS Glue Studio notebook and interactive sessions. Deriving insight from data is hard. It’s even harder when your organization is dealing with silos that impede data access across different data stores. Seamless data integration is a key requirement in a modern data […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently announced Multi-AZ with Standby, a new deployment option for managed clusters that enables 99.99% availability and consistent performance for business-critical workloads. With Multi-AZ with Standby, clusters are resilient to infrastructure failures like hardware or networking failure. This option provides improved reliability and the added benefit of simplifying cluster configuration and management […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) solution that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, get access to ML-enabled insights, and share visuals and dashboards with tens of thousands of internal and external users, either within QuickSight itself or embedded into any application. A write-back […]

This post is a guest post co-written with SeonJeong Lee, JaeRyun Yim, and HyeonSeok Yang from Encored Technologies. Encored Technologies (Encored) is an energy IT company in Korea that helps their customers generate higher revenue and reduce operational costs in renewable energy industries by providing various AI-based solutions. Encored develops machine learning (ML) applications predicting […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is a deployment option offered by Amazon EMR that enables you to run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in a cost-effective manner. It uses the EMR runtime for Apache Spark to increase performance so that your jobs run faster and cost less. Apache Spark allows […]